July 2014 - Posts

This is more for my own reference than anything else but today I was needing to enter a backslash key while using a US keyboard but with UK keyboard settings. After trying pretty much every key on the keyboard in all combinations, I realised there was Read More...

One of the projects I have been working on as time permits is to construct a way to create a shared access signature using native T-SQL. Shared access signatures are needed when working with SQL Server data files in Azure. Mostly, DBAs would use a programmatic Read More...

BACKUP TO URL was introduced as an add-on in Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 and as a built-in feature for SQL Server 2014. I previously described this in a blog post . We have been using this in a variety of ways from on-premises Read More...